Front cover layouts

A layout plan is a rough plan of what the layout looks like with the use of images and a little bit of text.

For the first two layouts I have designed them to be in more of a traditional way, the type that you will see when you usually buy magazines. The visual syntax of these will make it easy to read and follow. The house style of it is very simple and it will make it be easy to recognise the magazine cover. The image that is behind will cover up the page. These are potential ideas that I will do for my magazine front cover as I think that it can be effective because other magazines use it and are successful.

For these two layouts I have set it out so that it is more picture dominated and that there is very little text that is on the magazine cover. The house style of the cover is very simple and even though that it can be effective it can look very plain and needs to be made in a certain way. If I make this magazine cover then it can be difficult to do as you would need to have very skilled photography skills as the image would be the main thing that you can see on it. 

This magazine front cover is a text dominated layout, there would be a lot of text and information that is shown on the cover. This may put people off from buying the magazine as people like simple magazines that they can quickly read the information off from.On the first image the picture that would be in the middle would be covered up and you will not be able to see most of the image. The front covers don't look attractive because of all the writing that is on them.

On these layouts I have made them to have two images on them, in the background there would be an image of the famous person that the magazine issue would be about and in the smaller box I will put an image of something else that would be featured in the magazine. I feel that the last one would be potentially better than the first one because the image would be smaller and as it is higher up it will not get in the way of the main image where as the first one is in the middle and can get in the way of the magazine.